Commentaries On The Structure Of The USA: With A Preliminary Overview Of The Constitutional Historical past Of The Colonies And States, Earlier than The … Structure : In Two Volumes (2 Quantity Set)

Reprint of the second version, with additions by his son W.W. Story [1819-1895]. Initially printed: Boston, Little, Brown and Firm, 1851. First printed in 1833, this work is mostly thought of to be an important work written on the American Structure. Devoted to John Marshall, it offered a strongly Federalist interpretation. It’s divided into three books. E-book I incorporates a historical past of the colonies and dialogue of their charters. E-book II discusses the Continental Congress and analyzes the failings that crippled the Articles of Confederation. E-book III begins with a historical past of the Structure and its ratification. That is adopted by an excellent line-by-line exposition of every of its articles and amendments. Evaluating it to The Federalist, James Kent mentioned that Story’s work was “written in the identical free and liberal spirit, with equal exactness and soundness of doctrine, and with nice magnificence and eloquence of composition…. Whoever seeks…an entire historical past and exposition of this department of our jurisprudence, could have recourse to [this] work, which is written with nice candor, and characterised by prolonged analysis, and a cautious examination of the very important ideas upon which our authorities reposes.”: cited in Marvin, Authorized Bibliography (1847) 669-670.